Liquidity Heatmap.
A cumulative map of where liquidity pools up — liquidation levels, open-interest shifts, funding, fair-value gaps, and where stops and profit-taking tend to sit. Bright clusters are magnets: price tends to wick through and sweep them. Any asset, spot or futures.Liquidity above current price.
The brightest cluster sits above current price — a pool of resting liquidity (short stops, pending liquidations, breakout buying). If price grinds up into it, that fuel fires and tends to extend the move; the densest cluster above is where squeezes form. A natural target for a long.
Liquidity below current price.
The brightest cluster sits below current price — resting liquidity (long stops, pending liquidations, resting bids). A wick down sweeps it and price tends to reverse off the level. A target for a short, or a place to bid the bounce.
The heatmap blends several sources of resting liquidity into one view: where leveraged positions would be liquidated, where open interest and funding point to crowding, unfilled fair-value gaps, and the levels where stops and profit-taking tend to cluster. Each is weighted by how much activity traded there, so quiet zones stay faint and heavily-traded zones paint a strong band.
Intensity is cumulative — it builds forward in time until price actually trades through a level, at which point that band collapses. The dark gaps are levels that have already been swept; what stays lit is unswept liquidity, and that is the part worth reading.
Bright bands above current price flag fuel for an upside sweep — stops and liquidations that fire and extend a move if price grinds into them. Bright bands below flag the levels a flush would reach. Where the brightest cluster sits relative to price is one of the cleanest reads on which side has more fuel for the next leg. Works on any asset, spot or futures.